IsaiahRichard Green Moulton Macmillan, 1897 - 260 pages |
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... prophet Isaiah the paramount question is still , ' Under- standest thou what thou readest ? ' The literary instinct is drawn to this wonderful book by a charm which often seems to be flying from us if we press it beyond beauty of ...
... prophet Isaiah the paramount question is still , ' Under- standest thou what thou readest ? ' The literary instinct is drawn to this wonderful book by a charm which often seems to be flying from us if we press it beyond beauty of ...
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Richard Green Moulton. we may have only the rough notes of the prophet , made yet more disconnected by the illegitimate glosses of some wholly superfluous editor . From the Modern Reader's Bible questions of author- ship are excluded ...
Richard Green Moulton. we may have only the rough notes of the prophet , made yet more disconnected by the illegitimate glosses of some wholly superfluous editor . From the Modern Reader's Bible questions of author- ship are excluded ...
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... prophetic dramas are such as no theatre could compass . For their stage they need all space ; and the time of their action extends to the end of all things . The speakers include God and the Celestial Hosts ; Israel appears , Israel ...
... prophetic dramas are such as no theatre could compass . For their stage they need all space ; and the time of their action extends to the end of all things . The speakers include God and the Celestial Hosts ; Israel appears , Israel ...
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... prophet in realistic scorn ; the climax also to this group of prophecies is made by triumph cries of the invading ... prophet's own feelings at what he sees , or his explanations and admonitions . I have in this volume distinguished ...
... prophet in realistic scorn ; the climax also to this group of prophecies is made by triumph cries of the invading ... prophet's own feelings at what he sees , or his explanations and admonitions . I have in this volume distinguished ...
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... prophetic writing . To the corruption and evil around him he holds up a picture of a golden age in a future to be reached through a purging judgment from which only a remnant will escape . Whatever may be the immediate circumstances in ...
... prophetic writing . To the corruption and evil around him he holds up a picture of a golden age in a future to be reached through a purging judgment from which only a remnant will escape . Whatever may be the immediate circumstances in ...
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Ahaz ashamed Babylon Behold Book bring brought called chapter cometh desolate destruction discourse Divine Doom doth dramatic dwell ears earth Edom Egypt Ephraim Ethiopia everlasting exalted eyes familiar spirits fiery flying serpent fire gathered glory graven image hand hear heard heart heavens Hebrew Hezekiah holy mountain idols Immanuel inhabitants iniquity Isaiah Israel Jacob JEHOVAH'S SERVANT Jerusalem Judah judgment king of Assyria Kittim land lift LORD of hosts Maher-shalal-hash-baz maketh midst mighty Moab nations pass passages peace Philistia prose Rabshakeh rejoice Remaliah remnant rhapsody righteousness saith the LORD salvation Samaria Sennacherib Servant of Jehovah Shebna shewed Sibmah song soul spirit sword Syria Tarshish thereof thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought tion tree unto the LORD unto thee verse vineyard Vision VOICE OF PROPHECY waste Watchmen waters whole wilderness word Zion Redeemed
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Page 22 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 154 - Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Page 86 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; he shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks : bread shall be given him ; his waters shall be sure.
Page 111 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 121 - Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee ; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Page 180 - In all their affliction he was afflicted, And the angel of his presence saved them : In his love and in his pity he redeemed them ; And he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 148 - AWAKE, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 170 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, And the ships of Tarshish first, To bring thy sons from far, Their silver and their gold with them, Unto the name of the Lord thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 119 - Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein ; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Page 10 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.